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Danielli, James F.
dark matter
Darwin, Charles
algorithm of
genetics and
Darwinism
attacks upon
competition and conflict in
medicine and
neo-Darwinism
on other planets
selfish gene theory and
social
strict; see also adaptationism
theology and
ultra-Darwinism
see also adaptation; evolution; genes; natural selection
Davies, Paul
on Gell-Mann
on Smolin
Dawkins, Richard
on Dennett
on Farmer
on Goodwin
on Jones
on Langton
on Margulis
on Minsky
on Penrose
on Williams
death
Degler, Carl
Dennett, Daniel C.
on Dawkins
on Eldredge
on Gell-Mann
on Goodwin
on Gould
on Hillis
on Humphrey
on Kauffman
on Langton
on Margulis
on Minsky
on Penrose
on Pinker
on Schank
on Varela
on Williams
de Sitter, Willem
Deutsch, David
DeWitt, Bryce
Dicke, Robert
Dirac, P.A.M.
diseases
autoimmune
dynamic
diversity, genetic
DNA
extranuclear
see also genes
Dobzhansky, Theodosius
Dover, Gabriel
Dreyfus, Hubert
Drosophila
drug addiction
dynamic memory
Dynamic Memory (Schank)

Early Life (Margulis)
economics
ecosystem(s)
Earth as
virtual, see artificial life
Eddington, Arthur
education
university
Edwards v. Aguillard
Eigen, Manfred
Einstein, Albert
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (Dennett)
Eldredge, Niles
on Dawkins
on Gould
on Humphrey
on Kauffman
on Margulis
on Varela
on Williams
Embodied Mind, The (Rosch, Thompson, and Varela)
embryology
evolution and
kaleidoscopic
emergence
emergent selves (virtual identities)
Emerson, Alfred
emotions
Emperor's New Mind, The: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Penrose)
Encyclopedia Britannica
endosymbiosis, see symbiosis, symbiogenesis
energy conservation, inflationary universe and
engineering:
biology and
reverse
esthetics
Eudemonic Pie, The (Bass)
eukaryotic cells
evolution
artificial life and; see also artificial life
biological form and
of brain
chance in
of computer programs
of consciousness
cultural
as a dance
denial of
of development
discontinuity in
of evolvability
and informational domain vs. material domain
limited perspective in study of
long-term events in
progress in
punctuated equilibria in
role of death in
of senescence
symbiogenesis in
teaching of, in schools
of universe
see also adaptation; Darwinism; genes; natural selection
Evolution
Ewald, Paul
exaptation
Extended Phenotype, The (Dawkins)
extinctions

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste
Langton, Christopher G.
on Farmer
on Gell-Mann
on Hillis
on Varela
language
as adaptation
aphasia and
brain and
Chomsky and
creolization and
double dissociation and
erroneous views on
as evolutionary by-product
as instinct
interest in
learning of
memory and
scientific jargon
sign
specific language impairment and
speech and
universality of
universality of design of
Language Instinct, The (Pinker)
Language Learnability and Language Development (Pinker)
Language of the Genes: Biology, History, and the Evolutionary Future (Jones)
Lapedes, Alan
Last Intellectuals, The (Jacoby)
Last Three Minutes, The (Davies)
Learnability and Cognition (Pinker)
learning
artificial intelligence and
of language
negative expertise and
in schools
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Levelt, Willem
Levin, Bernard
Lewontin, Richard
Licklider, Joseph
life:
artificial
origin of
Life of The Cosmos, The: A New View of Cosmology, Particle Physics, and the Meaning of Quantum Physics (Smolin)
Linde, Andrei
Linnaeus, Carolus
Lovelock, James E.
Luck, David

Understanding the Present (Appleyard)
unified theory
universe
anthropic principle and
big-bang theory of
black holes in
collapse of
complexity of
creation of
dark matter in
definitions of
density of matter in
evolution of
expansion of
inflationary
initial singularity of
meta-universe (ensemble of universes)
microwave background radiation in
natural selection and
origin of
quantum
self-organization of
simplicity and uniformity of
steady-state theory of
three-part history of
white holes in
wormholes in
universities
Unruh, Bill
Urey, Harold

vaccines
AIDS
vacuums
false
Varela, Francisco
on Dennett
on Farmer
on Goodwin
on Gould
on Hillis
on Humphrey
on Kauffman
on Langton
on Margulis
on Minsky
on Penrose
on Schank
vehicles (interactors)
virtual identities (emergent selves)
viruses
"Vision in a Monkey without Striate Cortex" (Weiskrantz and Humphrey)
visual cortex, destruction of
vitalism
von Neumann, John
Vrba, Elisabeth

Thirty-five years ago, C.P. Snow, in a now famous essay, wrote about the polarization of the ""two cultures" — literary intellectuals on the one hand, and scientists on the other. Although he hoped for the emergence of a "third culture" that would bridge the gap, it is only recently that science has changed the intellectual landscape

Brockman's thesis that science is emerging as the intellectual center of our society is brought to life vividly in The Third Culture, which weaves together the voices of some of today's most influential scientific figures, including:

Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins on the implications of evolution

Steven Pinker, Marvin Minsky, Daniel C. Dennett, and Roger Penrose on how the mind works

Murray Gell-Mann and Stuart Kauffman on the new sciences of complexity

The Third Culture is an honest picture of science in action. It is at once stimulating, challenging, and riveting.

"A rousing read, full of bloodthirsty intellectual combat....What a rich and savory brew it is — biologists, physicists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, computer scientists — you hear their voices, their spoken voices, in the terms with which they talk to (and about) each other."
— STEWART BRAND

"Fascinating...reading The Third Culture is ... Like playing tennis with someone who's better than you are. It will really make you stretch those mental muscles."
— JILL SAPINSLEY MOONEY, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

JOHN BROCKMAN, president of Edge Foundation and founder of the Reality Club, is a writer and literary agent.